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Quake-style slide-down terminal on Mac

over 5 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
It’s official. I’ve bought a Mac. I have never used a Mac before, and I am actually enjoying the discovery process I have to go through to get...

Copenhagen Ruby Brigade

almost 6 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
You’d might think that Denmark (where I live), being the home country of DHH, has a large and active Ruby and Rails community. The truth is that neither...

Inside Rails Engines

almost 6 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Rails Engines are small subsets of an application that can be dropped into any of your Rails applications and handle common parts of the application from...

RailsConf: People I met

almost 6 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
RailsConf was a blast. But I barely had the time to consume all the impressions, since my vacation was just after the event in Chicago. So I went directly...

RailsConf: Create, Read, Update, Delete: Normalize

almost 6 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
I’d been looking forward to David Heinemeier Hanssons (DDH) key note in the same way I’m guessing people looks forward to hearing Bill Gates and Steve...

Paul Graham: Power of the marginal

almost 6 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Paul Graham delivered a brilliant key note at the first day of RailsConf, with jokes and insights coming so fast in succession that it felt like a new chapter...

RailsConf: Shared Host Deployment

almost 6 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Geoffry Grosenbach is cool. And I’ve struggled with the same issues as he has, albeit I’ve been able to build on his work in my own deployment...

RailsConf: My Identity on Rails

almost 6 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Kiran Dandekar made an entertaining point out of demonstrating the variety of information that has be made available about him in different contexts like...

RailsConf: Inside Instant Rails

almost 6 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Curt Hibbs, the creator of Instant Rails, says he created the package basically because he is lazy, and he wants to make as easy as possible to get up and...

RailsConf: Dave Thomas’ keynote

almost 6 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers kicked of RailsConf 2006 with a talk filled with not just visions, but very specific suggestions, for the future...